Chapter 685 (1/2)

Underground Pivotal Secret Temple, the Holy City of Hermes

Tayfun had not slept well for over two consecutive months

Every time he closed his eyes, the screaot shot in her stoement Army All her intestines had been in a mess, and no herbal treatment in the holy city had been able to cure her wound After two days' struggle, she had finally died in great pain

Tayfun had become skeptical about the Graycastle's real pohen the church's spearhead led by Soli Daal had suffered a sharp defeat He had repeatedly suggested His Holiness Mayne think twice and do ation before the action, but the Pope had remained unmoved and ordered the church's ainst the defense line of Graycastle at the foot of Coldwind Ridge

He had expected that the church was going to pay a price for this hasty decision, but he had never thought that it would be such a terrible price

More unexpectedly, the church's elite troop, the invincible God's Punishment Army had also been defeated

The hed out blood and passed out on the top floor of the Tower of Babel

He had found out s after that

None of the Pure Witches had come back and His Holiness Mayne had been no where to be found after the war Not until he had taken a bold decision to break into the Pivotal Secret Area had he known the truth frouards there

They had told him that Mayne was not the real successor of His Holinessobien and the one who had received scepter and crown from the previous Pope was Pure Witch Zero

Given that, the Holy City had even lost the Pope at thatthat Tayfun had been able to do was to keep this secret underground forever He had made all the people who had come down here with him join the Pivotal Secret Temple He himself had started to serve as the Pope tethe order of the Holy City and reading the secret history stored in the Library

His reading had enabled hi the secret reasons for hunting and killing witches, the creation of God's Punishin of the church and the collapse of the witches' empire

These records had overthrown his worldview

He had never thought even in his wildest dreams that the church had been built by witches

Such a powerful witch e the whole Barbarian Land still failed to eliminate the demons What about the church? The God's Punishic Stones we treasure are nothing but a legacy of those exiled ancient witches

Tortured by these unsettling thoughts, he had quickly fallen into a torpor After two months which had seemed like two years to him, his face had become heavily wrinkled like the old Bishop and histhat if he fell do, the church would be finished, he had kept on working and refused to stop

He had proe believers at the fastest speed He had called on his people to defend the Holy City to the lastthe situation at a very difficult time

However, he himself was clear about all the troubles behind the stable facade Nothing could rapidly compensate for the loss of the God's Punish soldiers from the reserve force could hardly co capacity If it was during peace-tiet a chance to make up for the loss; but now Months of De, if he could not stop demonic beasts, the church would have no future